Monday, April 7, 2008

I love growing my own herbs. I have been doing that with basil and parsley for over 2years now, rosemary and chives for a little less time and a couple of months ago I started growing sage and oregano.
After cooking with sage for the first time, I felt like trying it again, using a recipe from the same article (DH magazine #32). One of the quickest pasta dishes I have ever put together, this is absolutely delicious. And Joey seems to think so, too. :)

There’s only a handful of ingredients here, so use the best and freshest you can find.

Place the pasta in a large saucepan of salted boiling water and cook until al dente; drain and set aside.
Meanwhile, heat a non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Add the butter and stir until melted. Add the sage and cook for 2-3 minutes or until the sage is crispy and the butter is browned.
Stir through the lemon juice, drained pasta, salt and pepper and toss to combine.
Top with the parmesan and serve.

I made some kind of similar pasta last night--it was something I used to make when I was in college. It was tolerable, but now after seeing your recipe....well, I don't think I could ever make my noodles again. I adore fresh sage and butter.

YUM!!!!!!

By the way, I need to check out your archives, but do you have a recipe for pao de queijo? I've been using that packaged stuff from my local Brasilian market--not as good as the real thing. Ah, there are so many recipes I need to look on your site for! My husband is half-Brasilian. (He was born in Belo Horizonte, MG.)

I really don't have a green thumb, my plants don't like me much, I forget to water them, so I can't imagine what I'd do to poor fragile herbs! That pasta dish looks totally delicious though, I could probably do it with store bought herbs, right? ;)

Isn't it yummy? :) I'm so glad you tried it and liked it! Donna's simple preparations are so good :)

I would love to grow my own herbs but it's pretty hard without a garden. But I'm not giving up! I have killed a lot of thyme plants already but I have a kaffir lime plant that seems to be doing well. Will try more herbs soon! :)

Hi! I'm visiting your blog for the first time and I find it gorgeous!! With so many incredible recipe and even so tasty!!Fantastic this pasta (I'm italian and I can recognize a good pasta when I see it :-P)..so delicious and yet so easy.Great!! If you don't mind I'll follow your post with much interest!!Silvia

Patricia - we are living on the same food level. I made this for dinner today but served gnocchi with it. soeren has gardening on tuesday afternoons and today he came home with a huge bunch of gorgeous sage. and i decided to make exactly this. Perfect!

I tried the classic brown butter and sage combo once, determined that it would go on some pumpkin gnocchi, but i was impatient and didnt really brown the butter. the problem was that at the time we only had dark-coated nonstick pans. lousy for browning (or so my husband, with the savvy food technique told me afterwards, when i served obviously yellow butter). Congrats on a delicious and light looking meal!